Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 47
The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice.
Who acts: Snow Queen, Queen, Hereupon · What happens: come back, like, stand, write, discharge · To what, where: discharge, resplendent masses
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow Queen, Queen, Hereupon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 2 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | compound |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 come | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 liked | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 liked | nsubj |
| 11 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 soon | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stood | advmod |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 discharge | nmod:poss |
| 16 | discharge | discharge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obj |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 masses | case |
| 19 | resplendent | resplendent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 masses | amod |
| 20 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 written | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ice | case |
| 22 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 masses | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | might | the Snow Queen | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | past | Queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Snow Queen not said here | Hereupon's discharge | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | write | participle | the Snow Queen not said here | resplendent masses of ice | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mass=Destination | ||||
| 5 | discharge | Hereupon | nom discharge «event transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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